Friday, October 26th was the last day for Alexandra Chando (Maddie Coleman). But more on that later. First here’s my synopses on last week’s part of Luke and Noah’s storyline.
On Wednesday, Luke is back at the Synder farm. Faith tells Luke about Holden and Lily’s recent fighting and separation and all the Dusty stuff. Lily is right. They need to be working together and working through this as a family. Holden really ticked me off with telling Luke about the back story behind the whole recent drama. He keeps implying that it’s Lily’s negligence that is the cause. Lily knew Dusty was innocent, but she did NOT know about Dusty suspecting Winston Mayer until after he was shot in the chest and collapsed at the front door of the farm. How many times does someone need to burn that into that man’s brain?! Where is the understanding Holden? Thank God Luke doesn’t blame Lily for this. He even told Holden that he was being a jerk. So true. There is one person to blame for all this mess: Winston Mayer. And his behind is in jail where he belongs.
Thursday Noah shows up to visit Luke. Luke says it’s been a weird day but it’s gotten better since he came up. Meanwhile we have Maddie with Henry and Vienna at Al’s Diner saying that she’s headed off to Wesleyan. And not only that, but she’s going to make her own decisions about her own life. Back at the farm, Luke’s physical therapist had just left him a binder full of exercises. Luke’s afraid of his upcoming therapy, and Noah wants to help. Maddie pops in for a visit to bring by some DVD’s and to tell them that she’s off to Wesleyan. Noah feels bad because if it wasn’t for him, she’d have been in school by now. As Maddie leaves, she tells Noah in private that right now Luke needs people he can count on and to think about what that really means. Uh-oh. This is where Noah decides to tell Luke about the drunken kiss he had with Maddie. He explains his reasoning behind it. After his dad tried to kill him, in his mind he still blames himself for everything and he was sure that Luke didn’t want to see him at first in the hospital. Part of him still wonders if Winston was right and Luke immediately cuts him off and tells him to not even think that that guy could be right. Luke tells him that kissing Maddie was wrong and that Noah needs to figure out why he did it, and that his dad is a bigot. Also Win lied to him his entire life. Luke wants Noah to prove that the man who put him in the wheelchair is not the same man that’s in front of him. It may take time, but time is all they’ve got. What awesome scenes. Another episode that shows us that they have great chemistry. And even Luke kissing Noah’s hand. Good stuff.
On Friday we have no Luke and Noah, but a little more goodbye with Maddie, this time with Will and Gwen. Those scenes were pretty nice. You could easily tell if you hadn't been watching long how close they were. Nice and heartfelt as they were with Henry and Vienna.
I have to say as far as Maddie’s goodbye goes, I was overall pretty dissatisfied. Yes, her farewell scenes with Will, Gwen, Henry, and Vienna were good. But I was for the most part let down with the scenes with Luke and Noah, which were pretty much an implied good-bye and not a real true one. And there were absolutely none at all with Tom and Margo. For those who aren’t familiar with them, Maddie used to date their son, Casey Hughes, and she moved in with them for a while, but she had to leave after Margo caught her about to get hot and heavy with Casey on the couch. Despite that awkward moment, the three of them still had a pretty decent relationship, and Margo and Maddie really gained a bond as she helped her deal with Maddie’s rape and comforted her, and it really came from something since Margo was also raped when she was younger. And for the writers and show runners to have absolutely NO farewell scenes with Tom and Margo considering how they were basically a second family to her… in my eyes, that was the biggest disappointment about her final couple of episodes. And let’s not forget Kim from WOAK. Maddie was an intern there very recently. None with her either. Just something else the powers that be need to work on. Well, actually, they need to work on trying to keep all the good actors they can first. I mean after all, the only reason Alexandra was even let go was because they couldn’t find a story for her. They least they could have done were to have come up with better, and more goodbye scenes.
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